Agent-Based Modeling of Drinking Behavior

Here is where you can have a go at running the model described in the paper. The model has been written in a agent based modeling language called NetLogo. We have embedded the program in this web page. Follow the instruction below and try it out for yourselves

This is a model of individual drinking behaviour. Here people move left and right on a strip and interact with one another

The people have eirher never drunk before (they are colored green ) or they are drinkers ( they are colored red ) or they have stoped drinking ( they are colored blue )

How to run model

1. Click the blue button matked setup to place the people on the strip. Not that on of them is red. Thesy are a drinker.

2. Then click the go button and you will see the peole move about. As they do so they interact with oters and if a non drinker interacts with a drinker then they too may become a drinker. If a drinker interacts with a non drinker they may become a non drinker.

The graphs show the number of people or each type by thier color